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Scream Factory Art Explosion - Day of the Dead, X-Ray / Schizoid, All Night 4 Horror Movie Marathon DVD
8 May 2013 8:45 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Things have been hopping over on the Scream Factory Facebook page with multiple announcements and artwork premieres. We've got all the latest for you right here. Read on!
First up the X-Ray / Schizoid Combo pack Blu-ray artwork.
X-Ray (Aka Hospital Massacre): Ex-Playboy Playmate Barbi Benton star in this 1982 horror flick about a beautiful woman who goes to the hospital for a routine check-up and finds herself being stalked by a maniac seeking revenge for a childhood Valentine’s Day prank.
Schizoid: Klaus Kinski, Donna Wilkes, Joe Regalbuto, and Christopher Lloyd star in this 1980 chiller about a newspaper advice columnist who begins receiving anonymous death threats at the same time female members of a group therapy session she attends start getting murdered.
Next we have the All Night 4 Horror Movie DVD Box Set Artwork which consists of Schizoid, The Outing, The Godsend, and The Vagrant.
"We have »
- Uncle Creepy
Tom Cruise Still Tougher Than An Overdone Steak In "Jack Reacher"
6 May 2013 9:59 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
I remember thinking that there was no way Tom Cruise could best Werner Herzog in fisticuffs. I still feel that way. Herzog has survived gunshots, saving Joaquin Phoenix from a car accident and a friendship with Klaus Kinski. Casting Herzog as the villain in this would've been more than enough to sell the overall plot, but adding Jai Courtney as his primary henchman and sniper is a brilliant touch. Courtney, who would later go on to play the younger McClane in A Good Day To Die Hard, is suitably menacing without being over-the-top. I'm fine with the dude taking over the Die Hard franchise, as he's a solid action star in his own right. He also works well as the blunt instrument Herzog's character, The Zec, uses in exacting vengeance on those who are getting in the way of the villainous machinations. Courtney is a believable counter to Cruise's Reacher. »
- Robert Ottone
Scream Factory Announces 'X-Ray' & 'Schizoid' Double Feature
3 May 2013 4:30 PM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
Scream Factory has just revealed the artwork for their upcoming double-feature release of X-Ray and Schizoid.
The set is due in August, and as we get closer I am sure we will get all the deets on the special features. Scream Factory always rocks the special features.
From the Scream Factory Facebook Page: "1980's Schizoid (starring Klaus Kinski, Donna Wilkes, Christopher Lloyd and lots of scissor stabbings) is paired with 1982's X-ray (also known as Hospital Massacre and stars Barbi Benton). If you're a fan of the mad killer sub-genre from this time period, you will definitely need this double bill for sure.
"X-ray Fans Take Note: Our presentation of X-ray is the full 89 min version - which is what Hospital Massacre was released on VHS in the 80s - and not the cut version that has, apparently, existed on overseas VHS copies or some cable airings. We did our homework on this one. »
- Alyse Wax
Scream Factory’s Blu-ray Cover For Cannon Slashers X-ray & Schizoid!
3 May 2013 4:28 PM, PDT | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
Scream Factory continues their onslaught of cult releases with a Blu-ray double feature of Cannon Films’ slashers X-ray (aka Hospital Massacre) and the Klaus Kinski Schizoid! Both are making their stateside digital debut on Blu-ray and DVD! X-ray will be the full uncut version, which should please fans who’ve long held on to their VHS copy. Plus, more Cannon Films on Blu-ray! Truly a wonderful thing to celebrate.
Here’s the official word from Scream Factory:
Two long-lost slasher films from the legendary Cannon Pictures roster finally see their DVD and Blu-ray courtesy of new transfers!
1980′s Schizoid (starring Klaus Kinski, Donna Wilkes, Christopher Lloyd and lots of scissor stabbings) is paired with 1982′s X-ray (also known as Hospital Massacre and stars Barbi Benton). If you’re a fan of the mad killer sub-genre from this time period, you will definitely need this double bill for sure.
August release planned. »
- Justin Edwards
F*ck for Forest – review
20 April 2013 4:02 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Michal Marczak's movie about a group of oddball environmental crusaders in Berlin recalls Werner Herzog without ever equalling him
Directed by a graduate of the Andrzej Wajda Master School in Warsaw, this deadpan documentary introduces us to a discontented Norwegian, the 23-year-old Danny, a former Olympian equestrian star who meets three latter-day hippies in Berlin, that hothouse for the nurturing of lost causes. They're the 32-year-old Tommy, a native of Oslo, and two German women, the 28-year-old Leona and the 22-year-old Natty, and he joins their quest to save the planet. Calling their idealistic, non-profit organisation Fuck for Forest, they pose for nude photographs and take part in clumsy hardcore movies as a way of raising money to save the rainforest. They speak a comic form of English, live in squats, dress in clothes they find in the streets, scavenge for food in dustbins and sing in primitive nightclubs. »
- Philip French
Giallo Fever: 'Slaughter Hotel'
18 April 2013 3:00 PM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
Today let's dig into a more obscure entry in the giallo genre, a sleazy and totally weird thriller starring the legendary Klaus Kinski. While many fans of classic horror know Kinski for his career-defining performance in the title role of Werner Herzog's amazing 1979 version of Nosferatu, he's appeared in tons of other horror films including Crawlspace, Creature and Jack the Ripper; he's played Renfield, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Marquis de Sade, and often appeared in the films of Jess Franco. He was also totally insane, and his reputation as a wild man and notorious womanizer often overshadowed his prolific film career, a genre-spanning body of work which ran the spectrum from classics to crap. His resume also includes a few giallo titles, like this oddball 1971 production (originally titled The Cold-Blooded Beast, also Asylum Erotica) from director Fernando Di Leo, best known for the 1972 crime thriller The Italian Connection. »
- Gregory Burkart
Universal Casts Luke Evans to Star As Dracula In The Upcoming Reboot
8 April 2013 8:49 PM, PDT | Horrorbid | See recent Horrorbid news »
Luke Evans is next in line to join the ranks with the likes of Bela Lugosi, Max Schreck, Klaus Kinski, Christopher Lee, Frank Langella and Gary Oldman as the Wales born thesp has been cast to play the legendary king of the vampires in Universal's reboot of Dracula. According to THR, in his first starring role for a studio, Evans (picture above) has signed to topline in Dracula Year Zero, Universals dramatic horror movie telling an origin sto… »
7 April 2013 1:44 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Documentary director best known for his unusual collaborations with German director Herzog died earlier today Les Blank, among whose directorial efforts is the British Film Academy-winning documentary Burden of Dreams, about the bizarre events surrounding the making of Werner Herzog's Amazon-set Fitzcarraldo, died in Berkeley, California, earlier today, according to an article found on the web site Deadline.com. Blank, who had been suffering from cancer, was 77. Pictured above: Herzog is the maddeningly obsessive star of the 1982 documentary Burden of Dreams. Near the end of the 1960s, Blank was directing industrial and promotional shorts in order to bankroll his i documentary shorts, including Chicago Film Festival winner The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (1969) and God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance (1969), about the burgeoning "flower children" scene. Music and the cultural context encompassing it were frequent themes in Blank's work. Examples include the norteño »
- Andre Soares
Jesús Franco obituary
5 April 2013 10:22 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Prolific Spanish film-maker who specialised in psychedelic gothic horror – often laced with sex and violence
According to the Internet Movie Database, the Spanish film-maker Jesús Franco, who has died aged 82, directed 199 films, from El árbol de España in 1957 to Al Pereira vs the Alligator Ladies in 2012, a record few can match in the era of talking pictures. Given that many Franco films exist in three or four variant versions, sometimes so radically different that alternative cuts qualify as separate movies, his overall tally might be considerably higher.
Born Jesús Franco Manera, he was most often credited – at least on international release prints – as Jess Frank or Jess Franco, though he used a host of pseudonyms, writing scripts as David Khune, composing music as Pablo Villa and co-directing pornographic films (with his long-term muse Lina Romay) as Rosa Almirall. He was a true man of the cinema, whose CV ranged from »
- Kim Newman
Jesús Franco: creator of erotic horrors who had a unique cinematic vision
4 April 2013 9:22 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Jess Franco, who has died aged 82, was a dedicated exponent of weird sex who leaves a vast and complex body of work
When the grand dames and gentlemen at Spain's 2009 Goya Film Awards sat drinking their champagne, I doubt many of them expected to see, before the night was through, a naked man and woman tied up and whipped in a circle of knives, two scimitar-wielding lesbians duking it out on a hilltop, a sadomasochistic orgy in a brothel or a coven of elderly witches massaging their nipples with a crucifix. Such, though, was the explosion of licentiousness in a montage of images from the career of Spanish filmmaker Jesús Franco Manera, aka Jess Franco, who received that night a lifetime achievement award.
Franco died in Málaga this week at the age of 82, but he leaves behind a vast and complex body of work – more than 180 movies in 54 years. Casual »
Underground Sex and Euro-Horror Director Dead; Reviled by Catholic Church, Goya Winner
2 April 2013 6:53 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Spanish director dies following a stroke: Best known for his nearly two hundred underground, "exploitation" films "I think I was born because my father and my mother had sex ... ." Nope, that has nothing to do with the anti-censorship lectured delivered by Oz the Great and Powerful and Interior. Leather Bar's James Franco online. The words above were uttered by another Franco, a Spaniard. No, not the foaming-at-the-mouth right-wing military ruler Francisco Franco, but multitasking filmmaker Jesús Franco, aka Jess Franco aka dozens of other aliases, including those in honor of jazz performers Clifford Brown and James P. Johnson. His oeuvre included about 200 films, among them The White Slave, The Sexual History of O, Macumba Sexual, , Emmanuelle Exposed, Vampyros Lesbos, The Mistresses of Dr. Jekyll, and White Cannibal Queen. The director died today in Malaga, a city in southern Spain, after suffering a stroke. According to reports, he had never truly »
- Andre Soares
Wamg Tribute: Director Jess Franco – 1930-2013
2 April 2013 8:34 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Sad news from Spain. Legendary director Jesús Franco Manera, aka Jess Franco, aka Clifford Brown and a couple dozen more pseudonyms, often took from the names of the American jazz musicians he so admired, has died at the age of 82. Franco suffered a stroke last week from which he couldn’t recover.
His Erotic Rites Of Frankenstein featured a shrieking, silver-skinned Frankenstein’s monster relentlessly whipping a man and a woman tied together over a bed of spikes. It was but one of countless sublime images from the output of the most prolific Exploitation director of all-time (yes, that includes Corman). With a repertoire of over 200 titles, Franco enriched the world of Eurohorror/Exploitation by writing, directing, and scoring a vast variety of films, including masterpieces such as Female Vampire, Count Dracula, Faceless, Night Of The Bloody Judge, Eugenie De Sade, and Venus In Furs, an epic amount of art, »
- Tom Stockman
Reason #6 Not to Trust Dolls: They Know How to Pull Your Strings
26 March 2013 10:00 AM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
It’s impossible not to like David Schmoeller’s Puppet Master, a film that combines Nazis, psychics, and the greatest killer puppets in film history. Yep, you read correctly. The greatest. First, let’s go through the puppets. There’s Blade who rocks a trench coat and was apparently inspired by Klaus Kinski, Jester, little Pinhead, Sexy Leech Lady (she pukes up leaches), and the big Drill Head dude.
They are the former puppets of a Puppet Master who shoots himself at the beginning of the film, as Nazis are coming to arrest him. But wait! He has craftily hidden his live puppets in a chest before he dies. Fast forward many years and the puppets are now being controlled by a psychic, who’s only mission is to kill all his psychic friends in creative ways with the help of these tiny wooden menaces. It has been a bit »
- Sara Castillo
Someone Is Making a Spiritual Sequel to 'A Clockwork Orange' -- Watch the Trailer
20 March 2013 1:00 PM, PDT | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
Attention all Clockwork Orange and Stanley Kubrick nerds: watch Florian Frerichs' Alex, a short film tribute to Kubrick's ultraviolence epic. Klaus Kinski's son, Nikolai Kinski, stars as a young man who embodies Malcolm McDowell's Alex after a futuristic city is crushed by a wave of violence. The uprising is sparked by a bloody war between the city's youth and the ruling class after Kinski's character stumbles across a "partial copy" of Kubrick's famous film. The droogs are reborn. The film will be released "Europewide" next January, but as Bleeding Cool states, there could be some legal barriers. We also have to wonder what Kubrick would make of the video. Feel free to interpret the short 50 ways till sundown, because...
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- Alison Nastasi
Damiano Damiani obituary
11 March 2013 5:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Italian director whose 1966 film A Bullet for the General, set in revolutionary Mexico, began a wave of 'tortilla westerns'
Damiano Damiani, who has died aged 90, was a director of Italian popular films and television. He was best known for La Piovra (The Octopus, 1984), an internationally successful TV series about the mafia, and made several mafia-themed films and TV movies, but his range was much wider.
Born in Pordenone, north-east Italy, he began his career in the 1940s, working in the art department and directing documentaries. As popular Italian cinema boomed in the 1960s, he began to make personal pictures, westerns, comedies, political thrillers and horror films. If you have only seen Amityville II: The Possession (1982), his one American movie, you have seen Damiani at his least inspired. In that film, the camera followed potential victims around a haunted house in a style made tedious four years earlier by John Carpenter's Halloween. »
- Alex Cox
Damiano Damiani obituary
11 March 2013 5:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Italian director whose 1966 film A Bullet for the General, set in revolutionary Mexico, began a wave of 'tortilla westerns'
Damiano Damiani, who has died aged 90, was a director of Italian popular films and television. He was best known for La Piovra (The Octopus, 1984), an internationally successful TV series about the mafia, and made several mafia-themed films and TV movies, but his range was much wider.
Born in Pordenone, north-east Italy, he began his career in the 1940s, working in the art department and directing documentaries. As popular Italian cinema boomed in the 1960s, he began to make personal pictures, westerns, comedies, political thrillers and horror films. If you have only seen Amityville II: The Possession (1982), his one American movie, you have seen Damiani at his least inspired. In that film, the camera followed potential victims around a haunted house in a style made tedious four years earlier by John Carpenter's Halloween. »
- Alex Cox
RopeofSilicon Movie Club: 'The Great Silence' (1968)
27 February 2013 2:00 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
A mute gunfighter by the name of Silence (played by Jean-Louis Trintignant star of the Oscar-nominated Amour) lives by a code that he won't shoot a man until that man draws on him first. This code is put on display as a group of bounty killers lay in wait and Silence guns them all down except one. This one, comes running out from behind a tree, surrendering, asking Silence not to kill him saying he's through with bounty hunting. Silence obliges by shooting off his thumb, guaranteeing he'll never pull a trigger again. In the first three minutes, director Sergio Corbucci has given us a character we want to now a lot more about. Corbucci's Django was one of the many inspirations for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, but as much as the film's title character may have come from Django, inspiration was found in plenty of other films, »
- Brad Brevet
Megan Fox sets aside her problems with Michael Bay for the greater good of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
22 February 2013 8:32 AM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Confirming that Michael Bay and Megan Fox are the Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski of our age, Megan Fox has signed on to star in Michael Bay’s upcoming reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, reigniting the turbulent yet effective collaboration that has produced some of cinema’s most memorable poses. As you may recall hearing about, during a year in which every passing production assistant weighed in on it, Fox and Bay had previously parted ways after Transformers 2, with Fox comparing Bay to “Hitler,” Bay sarcastically apologizing for the Holocaust-like conditions of making her work 12-hour days, and »
The great ecstasy of the sculptor Herzog
2 February 2013 3:03 AM, PST | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
"A sense of obligation."
 
That man can be found at the center of Werner Herzog's films. He is Aguirre. He is Fitzcarraldo. He is the Nosferatu. He is Timothy Treadwell, who lived among the grizzlies. He is Little Dieter Dengler, who needed to fly. She is Fini Straubinger, who lived in a land of silence and darkness since she was 12. He is Kaspar Hauser. He is Klaus Kinski. He is the man who will not leave the slopes of the Guadeloupe volcano when it is about to explode. He is those who live in the Antarctic. She is Juliana Koepcke, whose plane crashed in the rain forest and she walked out alive. He is Graham Dorrington, who flew one of the smallest airships ever built »
- Roger Ebert
Five Foreign Unfilmed Fangers
31 January 2013 1:14 PM, PST | Destroy the Brain | See recent Destroy the Brain news »
We’ve seen it all with vampires, right? They come in forms of little girls, sexy men, and sparkling day-walkers (the worst, right?). What a tired old trope!
There may be an abundance of vampire flicks, and always more coming, but there are plenty of blood-suckers that have never stalked the silver screen. Almost every culture in the world has a version of a vampire in their folklore, and some of them are bizarre, grotesque, and downright terrifying. The kind that would put Klaus Kinski’s Nosferatu to shame (he really freaks me out)! Let’s begin…
This vampire comes from Greece, its existence established in the seventeenth-century by Leo Allatius. If a child is born in the time between Christmas and Epiphany (January 6th), chances are it is a Callicantzaro. There shouldn’t be much question as to whether your kid is one or not because they has a black face with red eyes, »
- Marie Robinson
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